Jack The Station Cat

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This is the Jack the Station Cat website. Here you can find out a little bit about Jack, who lives at Tails End Station with his friends. His adventures are being retold in books by his human, Alan Cliff, for us all to share.

Jack enjoyed posing for photographs and portraits!

He lived with his humans Alan and Rosemary Cliff in North Wales, and inspired Alan to write about his adventures in a series of books now published by Gwasg Helygain.

Jack's First Day Cover

This first day cover featuring Jack the Station Cat and the Bala Lake Railway is a limited edition of 250 by Buckingham Covers. The narrow gauge locomotive on the railway stamp is Holy War. With the remains of Alice, whose photo is in the left hand corner of the cover, Holy War was brought back to Wales and the Bala Lake Railway by Alan Cliff in 1975. When steam finished at Dinorwic Quarry Llanberis, where they had worked all their lives, the little engines were sold and lived at the Quainton Road Steam Centre Buckingham until "repatriated".

The picture of Jack the Station Cat in the right hand corner of the cover is from the Jack book, "Jack the Station Cat and the Great Little Trains Robbery". This story features "Holy War".

The First Day Cover costs £9.00, post free. Please send cheques or P/0s made payable to "Jack the Station Cat Ltd" to the address in our purchasing section.

SPECIAL OFFER! The first day cover plus the book "Jack the Station Cat and the Great Little Trains Robbery" can be purchased for £10.00, post free. Please indicate if you wish the first day cover to be signed by Alan Cliff. The book will be signed.

Jack the Station Cat's Latest Adventures are Here!
"Jack the Station Cat and the August Day"

We are delighted to announce that Jack's latest adventures have been published!

Jack the Station Cat and the August Day are now available with half of the author's royalties being donated to "Save the Family".

Full details of the book and how to order it are available on our books page.

Jack the Station Cat is 10!
Jack the Station Cat: TENTH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS

The Rhyl Miniature Railway is holding a special birthday party for Jack on Saturday the 31st of July from 11.00 onwards. The party will take place at the railway's Marine Lake Station in conjunction with the publisher of the Jack books, Gwasg Helygain. Alan Cliff will be in attendance to sign books.

The Bala Lake Railway, the first railway shop to stock Jack books, is planning a special celebration to be announced shortly.

During August, a number of railway shops have Jack the Station Cat tenth birthday events planned. These include the Bluebell Railway who on the 6th to the 8th will be holding celebrations at their Sheffield Park shop on the occasion of the railway's fiftieth Anniversary; the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway who will be holding a special Jack the Station Cat weekend on the 14th and 15th; and the Welsh Highland Heritage Railway who have a weekend planned at Porthmadog on the 29th and 30th with Alan Cliff as a guest.

Other railways, such as the Stainmore line at Kirkby Stephen East Station, have intimated that they will be honouring the occasion at dates to be announced.

The new book "Jack the Station Cat and the August Day" will be launched at the Rhyl CELEBRATIONS.

Breaking News!

Jack the Station Cat visits the BBC Antiques Roadshow.

At the recording of the BBC Antiques Roadshow at "Steam" the Museum of the Great Western Railway, Swindon on Thursday April 22nd, Jack the Station cat had the pleasure of meeting Fiona Bruce, BBC News Reader and Presenter of the BBC Antiques Roadshow and ceramics expert Henry Sandon who is one of the longest serving members of the Roadshow's team of experts. Pictured with Fiona and Henry is Neil Booth Of Railwayana Auctions UK whose preserved British Railways Parcels van was the inspiration for Henry the Van in the Jack the Station Cat books. Also pictured is Pete Waterman the music impresario, a well known railway enthusiast, who like Neil Booth and his van was a guest at the Antiques roadshow recording.

Purchasing

To purchase books please see the purchasing section on our books page

Other Information

You can find out what else we can offer by clicking on the relevant link below:

Jack is now on Facebook!

Jack would love to see you on his Facebook page. Click here to say hello!

If you want to hold an event, please see our events page or click here to email us.

Jack gets about – here he is at the Sittingbourne and Kelmsley Light Railway, Lynton and Barnstaple Railway and Bala Lake Railway.

Jack the Station Cat Limited, Registered Office: 18 Ruabon Road, Wrexham, LL13 7PB
Registered in Wales Company No. 04598705